Men’s College Basketball Team Loses Game, 108-14, and Fans Couldn't Believe It
A matchup between the North Dakota State men’s basketball team and a non-Division I team on Sunday produced a ludicrous final score that has fans everywhere in amazement.
While it’s not uncommon for Division I schools like NDSU to occasionally play teams from lower divisions during the non-conference season to bolster their home schedule, its matchup with Oak Hills Christian College was certainly an outlier. Oak Hills Christian, a school with a listed enrollment of just 100 students in Bemidji, Minn., isn’t part of the NCAA at all. Instead, it plays sports in ACCA (Association of Christian College Athletics). The result, as you might expect, wasn’t pretty: North Dakota State won 108–14, producing this hilarious graphic that has since gone viral.
— NDSU Men's Basketball (@NDSUmbb) December 10, 2023
This might be ard to believe, but things were actually worse for Oak Hills Christian at halftime. They mustered just five points in the first half en route to a 60–5 deficit at the break before nearly doubling that output in the second to get to 14 points for the game. In total, Oak Hills Christian shot just 6–49 from the field, committed 23 turnovers and got outrebounded 59–14 by the Bison.
Oak Hill Christian’s roster lists just one player taller than 6’4”, and its coach, Tom Haldeman, doubles as a faculty advisor and instructor for the business program.
Was this a productive game for anyone? Probably not. But did it produce some funny memes in the process? Of course it did.
What do you even say in the locker room ???? https://t.co/W62qFCkWKQ
— Kofie.bsky.social (@Kofie) December 10, 2023
They played a church league team https://t.co/PB2ueGJtuX pic.twitter.com/lKApU4sdk9
— ᗩᑎT ᗯᖇIGᕼT (@itsAntWright) December 10, 2023
Me in the locker room after losing by 94 https://t.co/hpDIHEJmYQ pic.twitter.com/mppwOZluun
— Overtime (@overtime) December 10, 2023
If you got the 10 most recent people who told you they could’ve went D1 but never played college basketball and put them against a D1 team, this would be a result https://t.co/SQoVelcEAO
— Gabe Myers (@G_Myers33) December 11, 2023
In football we call this week 12 of the SEC schedule https://t.co/YTaWGhDhqY
— JoeyBoatwater (@JBoatwater) December 11, 2023
What the what https://t.co/NRKcKyyB96
— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) December 10, 2023
Took an extensive dive into Oak Hills Christian College’s basketball team. They are 2-9 with losses by 92 points and 72 to Valley City State University (Yes, they played them twice), 73 to Bemidji State, 72 to Dickinson State. Both of their wins were in conference play. https://t.co/jUqajgUfiz
— Max Baker (@maxbaker_15) December 11, 2023